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The animal ethics reader /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Armstrong, Susan J. (Susan Jean), Botzler, Richard George, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2008]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal rights.
Animal Welfare > ethics.
Animal Rights.
Table of Contents:
  • The case for animal rights
  • Reply to Tom Regan
  • Are human rights human?
  • Practical ethics
  • Feminism and the treatment of animals : from care to dialogue
  • Rights, interests, desires and beliefs
  • Animals and the harm of death
  • Consciousness, emotion and animal welfare : insights from cognitive science
  • Reflections
  • Anthropomorphism and cross-species modeling
  • A neuropsychological and evolutionary approach to animal consciousness and animal suffering
  • Animal consciousness : what matters and why
  • Animal minds and animal emotions
  • New evidence of animal consciousness
  • Animal pain
  • How facts matter
  • Deep ethology, animal rights, and the great ape/animal project : resisting speciesism and expanding the community of equals
  • Ape consciousness, human consciousness : a perspective informed by language and culture
  • Cultures in chimpanzees
  • Are apes persons? The case for primate intersubjectivity
  • Problems faced by wild and captive chimpanzees : finding solutions
  • Culture and conservation of non-humans with reference to whales and dolphins : review and new directions
  • Into the brains of whales
  • 24. Whales as persons
  • Meat-eating
  • Thinking like animals
  • A major change
  • Food prices and animal welfare
  • Animal agriculture : myths and facts
  • The least harm principle may require that humans consume a diet containing large herbivores, not a vegan diet
  • The ethical imperative to control pain and suffering in farm animals
  • The basic argument for vegetarianism
  • The rape of animals, the butchering of women
  • A paradox of ethical vegetarianism : unfairness to women and children
  • Judaism
  • Enhancing the divine image
  • The Bible and killing for food
  • Islam
  • The case for animal rights
  • The ethics of animal research : what are the prospects for agreement?
  • Defending animal research : an international perspective
  • Who--or what--are the rats (and mice) in the laboratory?
  • Ethical themes of national regulations governing animal experiments : an international perspective
  • Summary of recommendations
  • Humane education : the role of animal-based learning
  • Ecological ethics : building a new tool kit for ecologists and biodiversity managers
  • Ethics and experimentation : hard choices for the field ornithologist
  • Some ethical issues in biotechnology involving animals
  • Crossing species boundaries
  • In defense of the moral relevance of species boundaries
  • Animal genetic manipulation : a utilitarian response
  • The inevitability of animal biotechnology? Ethics and the scientific attitude
  • On telos and genetic engineering
  • Brave new birds : the use of "animal integrity" in animal ethics
  • Cloning advances and challenges for conservation
  • Creating Fido's twin : can pet cloning be ethically justified?
  • The philosophical value of wildlife
  • The ethic of care and the problem of wild animals
  • Game and wildlife conservation [1932]
  • The killing game : an ecofeminist critique of hunting
  • Environmental ethics and trophy hunting
  • Exotic species, naturalisation, and biological nativism
  • To eat the laughing animal
  • Orcas and dolphins in captivity
  • Zoos and eyes : contesting captivity and seeking successor practices
  • Against zoos
  • In defense of zoos and aquariums : the ethical basis for keeping wild animals in captivity
  • Zoos and the rights of animals
  • Opportunities lost : zoos and the marsupial that tried to be a wolf
  • Affection's claim
  • Dogmaticisms and catechisms : ethics and companion animals
  • The pet world
  • Hand-raising a rhino in the wild
  • Living with animals
  • Protecting children and animals from abuse : a trans-species concept of caring
  • The welfare of assistance and therapy animals : an ethical comment
  • Killing animals in animal shelters
  • The miracle of life
  • A great shout : legal rights for great apes
  • Book review : Rattling the cage : toward legal rights for animals by Steven M. Wise
  • The dangerous claims of the animal rights movement
  • Just like us
  • Every sparrow that falls : understanding animal rights activism as functional religion
  • Understanding animal rights violence
  • Civil disobedience : a case study in factors of effectiveness
  • In your face : from actor to activist
  • Ten ways to make a difference.